Leprosy Association with Low MASP-2 Levels Generated by MASP2 Haplotypes and Polymorphisms Flanking MAp19 Exon 5

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Boldt, Angelica Beate Winter ^a   Goeldner, Isabela ^a   Stahlke, Ewalda R S ^b   Thiel, Steffen ^c   Jensenius, Jens Christian ^c   de Messias Reason, Iara José Taborda ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b Secretaria Estadual de Educação do Paraná   (Brazil)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNAN BINDING LECTIN ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEINASE; MANNAN BINDING LECTIN ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEINASE 2; PROTEIN MAP19; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BORDERLINE LEPROSY; BRAZILIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANISH; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASP2 GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUBERCULOID LEPROSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; BRAZIL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ORDER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MALE; MANNOSE-BINDING PROTEIN-ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEASES; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880797981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069054     Document Type: Article

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